Hydrant-box



No. 6|3,9|4. Patented Nov. 8, |898.

C. G..SHOTTS, 1n. & W. K. WEBB.

HYDRANT Box.

(Application med Feb. 2s, 189s.)

(No Model.)

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CHRISTIAN G. SHOTTS, JR., AND WILLIAM K. WEBB, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HYDRANT-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part ef Letters Patent No. 613,914, dated November s, 189s.

Application tiled February 23,1898. Serial No. 671,249. (No model.)

To all wltm it may concern:

v Be it-known that we, CHRISTIAN G. SHoT'rs, Jr., and WILLIAM K. WEBB, citizens of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hydrant-Boxes, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specication and accompanying drawings.

Our invention consists of a box adapted to support a hydrant, the same having an extension whereby easy access may be had to the service-pipe, cocks, dro., for repairs and other purposes, a bottom through which the waste water can escape into the ground, and a false bottom which supports said servicepipe, &c.

Figure l represents a side'elevation of a hydrant and a vertical section of a box embodying our invention. Figs. 2 and 3 represent horizontal sections of the two-way cock employed, the plug thereof being shown in dierent positions.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a box or casing provided at its top with a vertically-extendin g boss B,on the interior whereof are shoulders C, adapted to support the body D of a hydrant, which is of usual construction, said box having a lateral extension E, open at its top as a manhole, on which is the lid F, which is normally retained in closed position by screws, bolts, or other suitable devices F2, passing into the cleat G, which is secured to said boss B, forming a shoulder on the exterior of the boss adapted to support said lid, said lid being at or near the line of a pavement, sidewalk, or road, so that the upper end of the boss is above said lid, whereby rain or other water on said lid is prevented from entering the boss on said line and reaching the bottom of the hydrant.

H designates the bottom proper of said box, the same having the openings J, and K designates a false bottom provided mainly as a support for the service-pipe L and adjuncts and dividing the box into the main chamber M and the supplemental chamber N below the frost-line.

y P designates a two-way cock connecting said service-pipe L and the vertical branch supply-pipe Q, which latter leads to the hy drantenozzle.

To the plug of the two-way cock P is fitted a key R, which extends and is attached to the handle of the hydrant, as usual in such cases. The two-way cock P is provided with an outlet-nozzle S, which is directed into the supplemental chamber N. The service-pipe L has connected with it the cock T for cutting off the water in said pipe.

The operation is as follows: The water may be turned on as usual, but when turned otf the plug of the valve P is placed in the position shown in Fig. 3, stopping the How from the service-pipe and permitting the Waste water in the pipe Q to empty itself into the supplemental chamber N, as indicated by the arrows, and pass through the openings J in the bottom H into the ground below without exposing the service-pipe and cocks thereon to said water.

When it is desired to repair the pipes, cocks, dac., within the box or casing, the lid is opened, when the plumber or workman can enter the box through the lateral exten sion E'thereof and have access to said pipes, &c., without the necessity of removing the hydrant or box, as heretofore occasioned.

When the service-pipe is disconnected, the box in its entirety may be readily raised from the ground and afterward as readily returned thereinto without necessarily detaching the pipe Q Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A box, an. upwardly-projecting boss at the upper end thereof, a lateral extension of said box with an opening at top and a lid covering said opening, said boss rising above the box and lid and adapted to have the lower portion of a hydrant placed therein and supported above said lid.

2. A hydrant-box having means for supporting the hydrant, a bottom proper with e an opening therein, a false bottom dividing said box into main and supplemental chambers, a manhole in a lateral extension of the box leading into a main chamber, a covering for said manhole, a service-pipe, and a two- Way cock with a waste-Water nozzle connected with said pipe, the Waste-nozzle leading into the supplemental chamber.

3. A hydrant, a box having a boss adapted to support the hydrant, an extension on said box with an opening and a lid adapted to close said opening normally retaining said box locked, a bottom in said box provided with openings, a false bottom located above it forming a supplemental chamber in said box, a service-pipe leading from the main chamber to the nozzle through said box and being supported upon the false bottom and a two-Way cock attached to said pipe provided with a communication With said chamber, whereby Waste Water enters the su pplemental chamber, and is discharged therefrom to the ground through thc opening in the bottom proper Without contacting with the service-Y pipe or the cocks thereof on the false bottom.

4. A box, an upwardly-projecting boss at the upper end thereof, a lateral extension of said box with an opening at the top and a lid covering said opening, said boss rising above the box and lid and adapted to have the lower' portion of the hydrant placed therein and supported above said lid, the interior of said boss having shoulders thereon on which the bottom of the hydrant is adapted to be rested and the exterior of said boss having a shoulder on which the adjacent end of said lid is supported.

CHRISTIAN G. SIIOTTS, JR; VILLIAM K. WEBB.

Vi tnesses:

J oHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, WM. C. WIEDERSHEIM. 

